Despite an air of Islamophobia pervading the United States as a result of several deadly terrorist attacks by Muslims, more Muslim refugees than Christians came to the U.S. this fiscal year, according to a report released this week.
More than 60,000 refugees have fled to the U.S. so far in this fiscal year -- which began last October -- the Newsy website reports today (August 17, 2016).
The Pew Research Center recently analyzed data from the State Department's Refugee Processing Center.
Pew found that since October 2015, nearly 29,000 of the refugees -- or 46 percent of the total refugees entering the U.S. -- have been Muslims. At the same time, a little more than 27,500 Christians came to the U.S., which comes out to 44 percent.
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